🍳 Now You're Cooking! - A Roguelike Deckbuilder

[peterino2]

looks and sounds incredible!

[smlavine]

Cool concept, looks appetizing! I don’t think I’ve seen an entry in this genre before that isn’t themed around violence. Neat.

[alanza]

you might enjoy Balatro

[MasonRemaley]

Thanks!!

I’ve been putting a lot of work into the animations, and Carolyn (the artist) has been working really hard on the sprites and backgrounds.

It’s been really fun getting the game into a presentable state, but I’m looking forward to switching my focus back to gameplay when I return from SYCL.

[MasonRemaley]

I wrote up a quick postmortem on the announce here:

• Announce Postmortem

TLDR: I learned a lot but I hit my wishlist targets, and am now working on gameplay so I can eventually release a free demo! I’m also working on some tech that will make the demo trailer easier to put together when it’s time.

[filo]

I really love the art style, it looks so good. Straight into my Steam wishlist!

Also, thanks for AYCB/SDL. I’m using it to learn 3D graphics and I always read your open source code related to game dev and I’m learning a lot

[MasonRemaley]

I really love the art style, it looks so good. Straight into my Steam wishlist!

Thanks!!

Also, thanks for AYCB/SDL. I’m using it to learn 3D graphics and I always read your open source code related to game dev and I’m learning a lot

No problem! It’s been fun working with others instead of just making stuff for myself.

It’s especially nice that people have been contributing backends for platforms I don’t have at home. This might make it possible for me to ship a mac build if I also upstream the changes @alanza PR’d to my shader workshop back into my engine to make it compatible with MoltenVK.

(I’ll get to the relevant open mac PRs on AYCB/SDL soon, just need to find the time & borrow a mac to test on.)

[alanza]

then I’LL be cooking!

that is i’ll be cooking when i play your game. since it is called now you’re cooking

[rickygai]

That’s good to know, the game is done in ZIG completely. Good job.

[flow]

You’ve used a translation service, but how do you implement those different languages in your software?

[MasonRemaley]

@rickygai thanks!!

I do depend on some C/C++ libraries like SDL and the shaders are written in GLSL, but everything else is Zig. The external C libraries and GLSL shaders are still built from source by the Zig build system, gotta be able to cross compile for all my targets.

(I’m also planning on rewriting the shaders in Zig as the SPIRV backend and vector ergonomics improve.)

@flow I keep all my “messages” in a separate JSON file and reference them by tagged union in game. I’ll probably switch this over to ZON, I was thinking translation studios might accept JSON but I think they just prefer spreadsheets so I’d have to convert it regardless.

The JSON file doesn’t just store raw strings, it has a markup language, so you can write things like “increase card value by {dollars}” in the localization data. This way the translators can reorder the substitution to match the grammar of the target language. The message type is a tagged union rather than an enum so that I can get type safety for the substitions. I’m not sure how I feel about this, I might end up refactoring it into something more dynamic.

The source code is here. I’m using this in game today with dummy text, but I haven’t actually had the localization studio translate the in game text since I’m still working on it (just the coming soon page is translated atm). In other words, while I do use this code every day, it won’t be fully battle tested until nearer to release.

[pachde]

Professional translation companies should have no trouble with json, so don’t rush to make tooling until you decide who you’re contracting with. (I worked for Lionbridge for a bit not too long ago).